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• The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

  William Blake

  Knives, Forgiving, Lambs

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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• Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

  William Blake

  Men, Ideas, Knaves

  William Blake (1926). “Preface. General introduction index of symbols. Appendices: The book of Thel. Tiriel. Notes to Reynolds's Discourses. Descriptive catalogue of pictures. 1809. Prose from the Rossetti ms. Table of substituted capitals. Index to foot-notes, &c”, Oxford University Press

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• Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

  William Blake

  Tears, Eternity, Babe

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.495, Univ of California Press

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• Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

  William Blake

  Intuition, Identity, Harmony

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.659, Univ of California Press

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• My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Angel

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Little Black Boy'

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• When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
  All Nature was degraded;
  The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
  And all his pictures faded.

  William Blake

  Kings, Queens, Artist

  Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds p. cix 'When Sir Joshua Reynolds died' (c.1808)

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• But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

  William Blake

  Sunshine, Done, Masters

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

  William Blake

  Pride, Glory, Glory Of God

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

  William Blake

  Would Be, Morality, Christianity

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• Every wolf's and lion's howl
  Raises from Hell a human soul.

  William Blake

  Soul, Lions, Hell

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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• Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Father, Son

  William Blake, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel, On Homers Poetry, [and] On Virgil, Laocoön”, p.221, Princeton University Press

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• None but blockheads copy each other.

  William Blake

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• If you have form'd a circle to go into,
  Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
  
  They said this mystery never shall cease:
  The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

  William Blake

  War, Circles, Soldier

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.151, Wordsworth Editions

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• Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

  William Blake

  Sweet, Singing, Chorus

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.53, Routledge

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• If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

  William Blake

  Men, Helping, Minutes

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• He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

  William Blake

  Love, Sports, Laughter

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

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• Art degraded, Imagination denied.

  William Blake

  Art, Imagination, Denied

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.274, Univ of California Press

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• The Vision of Christ that thou dost see,
  Is my vision's greatest enemy.
  Thine is the Friend of all Mankind,
  Mine speaks in Parables to the blind.
  Thine loves the same world that mine hates,
  Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

  William Blake

  Hate, Doors, Heaven

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.14, Penguin

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• Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

  William Blake

  Men, Race, Iron

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

  William Blake

  Heart, Eye, Secret

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.171, Pearson Education

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• Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Dark

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• 'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

  William Blake

  Religious, Boys, Tangled

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education

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• What has reasoning to do with painting?

  William Blake

  Painting, Reasoning

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• Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

  William Blake

  Race, Poetry, Proportion

  Jerusalem "To the Public" plate 1 (1815)

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• I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Imagination

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.147, Univ of California Press

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